Ollama
Run open models locally with one command and a local API.
Research notes
How we research- Official site loadsChecked Oct 13, 2026: ollama.com
- Pricing checked on the vendor siteSource: https://ollama.com/pricing
- Pricing note corrected Oct 13, 2026Was: "Free". Found: Local use free; cloud Pro $20/mo, Max $100/mo, Team $500/mo
- Free / DIY pathFree to run models locally
Listed because it fits the Local AI category. Listings are free; sponsored placements, if any, are labeled and never change rankings.
Recent news
All news- NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agentsNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open mixture-of-experts model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, aimed at fast, repetitive agent steps like tool calls. CNBC reported NVIDIA says it can run on a single GPU in a laptop or desktop. It is available in Ollama.
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model it says is built for local agent work and small enough to run on a Mac or PC with one consumer GPU. The weights are under the Apache 2.0 license. Ollama added it the same day.
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